22 Nov
2001
22 Nov
'01
7:10 a.m.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Chris wrote:
Writing to a DD disk in a HD 5.25" drive is hardly ever a problem if the
disk has ben degaussed and then formatted as 360k in the HD drive. As
you say, reading a 360 in the HD drive is a shoo-in.
- don
Ok, so
what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
I think I'll try to fire up an old school IBM PC with a 360K drive to see
if I have better luck.
I've never had a problem READING 360k disks in a 1.2 drive. I have had
trouble writing them (but not always, and I think it might be related to
the disks being DD's, but formated as HD's and then back to DD's again...
not sure). And I do know when formatting them under dos, you need to
specify that you are formatting a 360k disk in a 1.2 drive (/f is the
switch I think). Just specifying the size as 360k doesn't usually work
for me.
-chris
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